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Spoof British political pundit Jonathan Pie, whose rant against Hillary Clintonwent viral just after the election, has done it again.

Pie, a fictional political TV reporter who is the creation of English comedian Tom Walker, is left-wing but he isnt exactly afraid to call out liberals when he thinks they deserve it.

His latest dispatch is one such occasion. Entitled The Fear of Language, Pies video takes students to task for being afraid of debate, wanting to take down statues of colonialists and putting trigger warnings on novels they dont like.

The video has been watched over 100,000 times on YouTube and got 1.9 million views on Facebook.

Pie begins his video polemic mocking the bizarre attempts made by regional authorities in Salford, the northern city where he is filming his video, to ban swearing before launching into a diatribe about liberals attitude to free speech.

Pie asks: Why are people so afraid of language?What baffles me is this fashion for stifling language and opinion comes from the left. Liberals. Students.

Students saying, You cant do this, you cant do thatall this youthful energy concentrating on stopping debates rather than winning them. No wonder being right-wing is the new RocknRoll on uni campuses. Thats how you rebel these days.

On a roll, Pie adds: Youve got students calling for statues of dead men to be torn to the ground because they were colonialists. Im not being funny but who wasnt?! Its not an honor to have a statue in your image or a building in your name 100 years after your death. Youre dead!

Its no longer an honor- its a reminder. Theyre reminders of how we got to where we are. Our history is being erased- by students. Some of them history students! Its revisionist. Its f***ing Orwellian. All for fear of causing offense.

Literature. If youre offended by To Kill a Mockingbird because it uses language of its time that is no longer acceptable, if you cant make that distinction, then youre a f***ing idiot and you have no appreciation of context and you have no place doing a f***ing literature degree.

And yet certain Unis- theyre putting trigger warnings on these novels because they may cause offense.

How many times do you hear that? This was edited, censored, banned because it may cause offense. Im sorry but no-one has a right not to be offended because offense- its entirely subjective.

Right on!

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Updated March 11, 2017 16:38:54

A preference deal struck with the Liberal Party head of the West Australian election has ended up hurting One Nation, the party's leader Pauline Hanson says.

Ms Hanson joined One Nation supporters at a polling booth in Baldivis in Perth's southern suburbs on election day, handing out how-to-vote cards to voters.

Earlier, a Newspoll published in The Australian newspaper showed a marked drop in support for One Nation, which peaked at 13 per cent at the start of February but dropped to 8 per cent in the wake of the preference deal with the Liberals and ongoing problems with candidates.

The Liberals agreed to preference One Nation ahead of the Nationals in Upper House regional areas in the state, in return for One Nation preferencing the Liberals over Labor in all Lower House seats it contested.

Today Ms Hanson conceded the deal had not helped her party.

"I think it's actually done One Nation some damage," she said.

"It's been the biggest topic, people ask me about preferences and they don't understand the voting system, the preference system, the preferences. I'd like it to be introduced into the educational system.

"I think that's where most of the damage has come from."

Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, who joined WA Labor leader Mark McGowan in the northern Perth suburb of Yokine, took aim at the Liberals over the agreement with One Nation.

Mr Shorten said Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull should have condemned the deal.

"The Liberal deal with One Nation's been the ultimate exploding cigar of this election," he said.

"It just clearly shows a vote for One Nation is a vote for [Premier] Colin Barnett and the Liberal Party.

"And I have to say I think Malcolm Turnbull has been too weak in not stopping it."

Mr Barnett earlier refused to answer questions about One Nation after casting his vote in his electorate of Cottesloe.

"Not talking about One Nation, this is about the Liberal Party today," he said.

"I'm here to vote ... I don't really care too much about Pauline Hanson and One Nation. My opponent is the Labor Party."

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CJ Letters Published 3:09 p.m. ET March 9, 2017 | Updated 12 hours ago

Yes, we provoke, poke, prod, and challenge our students.(Photo: Illustration - ALLVISIONN, Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Regarding liberal bias in academia, Dr. Jones says, Admittedly, there are probably more liberal and progressive thinkers in the professorate than not. He then tells us that the more educated you are, the more liberal you are, on average. Then he says that he is in the less than 1.7 percent of the population that has a Ph.D., that he is educated, smart and a thinker. The only thing missing is but best of all, Im not conceited!

So, education yields progressives, which yields thinkers. Ergo, conservatives are not thinkers. Since he thinks his job is to teach his students to think, the only way they can demonstrate proficiency is to become more liberal. Therefore, professors arent biased; theyre just trying to get those dumb conservatives to think.

Paul Stine

Louisville 40204

It is coincidental that on the sameday I read Professor Ricky Jones' columntouting the intellectual superiority of liberal college professors I also read an article in the conservative magazineThe Weekly Standardon the death of conservative intellectual Michael Novak by Joseph Bottum, who writes, "If you can't picturea worldwithout widely read outlets for intellectual conservatism --a worldin which socialism and secularization were the unquestioned air thatallAmerican thinkers were assumed to breathe -- you should offer a prayer for the life of a man named Michael Novak."

Personally, I suspect thatJones has spent much of his life and time hobnobbing with professors of like-minded ideology and that his question of "why do well-educated people tend not to self-identify as conservative" suggests he is likely oblivious to the intellectual conservatism that abounds outside the confines of college campuses. Most liberals believe they should be in control of our culture, our society, and our nation for the simple reason they believe themselves smarter than the rest of us. Professor Jones need not worry about being considered "dangerous." He is so only to those who are actually convinced of his superior ability tothink.

James A. Ritz

Salem, Indiana 47167

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13-year-old tells Jewish woman to "go back to her own country" (Photo: screen capture)

Maricopa County burnished its reputation as theTrumpiest in Americalast weekend as hundreds of locals, including heavily armed militiamen, white nationalists and even a few electedofficials, gathered to support the 45th president. The ensuing March for Trump was as horrifying as it sounds.

I heard lock her up, lock her up, and we still need to pursue that, announced Arizona Congressman Anthony Kern; a nod to a prominent Trump campaign promise to imprison then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

If you dont like it here, go to Syria, go to someplace else, one attendee shouted.

I dont want em, as a veteran I dont want em, let em go back home, another seconded. If theyve got a problem, let Saudi Arabia take care of em.

Some even dared to tell Dan Cohen of the The Real News Network how theyd make America great again now that Trump was in office. And Muslims werent the only religious minority unwelcomed.

If she is Jewish, she should go back to her country, a 13-year-old Trump supporter said of a protester.

This is America, wedont want Sharia Law, one attendee explained. Christian country, he added.

One man insisted that Senator John McCain was a secret communist.

I think theres a lot there, he said of Pizzagate, a deranged right-wing conspiracy theory that Clintons campaign chairman John Podesta was running a child prostitution ring out of a Washington, D.C. pizzeria. Definitely enough to warrant an investigation.

The days proceedings would grow uglier still.

I just want to let them know that I cant wait for the liberal genocide to begin, an Oath Keeper shouted at a small group of protesters.

Thats the way to make America great again, he later toldCohen. Liberals are destroying the country.

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One Nation candidate Margaret Dodd says she will boycott the party?s how-to-vote directive for the WA election because she has been lied to by Pauline Hanson. CREDIT: ABC/7:30 Report

One Nation candidate Margaret Doddsays party leader Pauline Hanson lied to her. Picture: Colin Murty The Australian

ONE Nation has lost another candidate just a day out from the West Australian state election.

Candidate for Scarborough Margaret Dodd, mother of murdered teenager Hayley Dodd, quit the party on Friday and will contest the seat as an independent.

Ms Dodd said she could no longer run with the party as it lacked integrity, honesty and transparency.

I am of the opinion that this party is more adherent to a dictatorship than an democratic organisation and lacks principles, she said in a statement.

PHON in my eyes are not about the WA people and their future, but for personal power for senator Hanson, who will do and say anything to achieve her goal at whatever cost.

IM SORRY: Is Hansons apology enough?

One Nation candidate Margaret Doddsays party leader Pauline Hanson lied to her. Picture: Colin Murty The AustralianSource:News Corp Australia

Ms Dodd, who was a member of the party for four weeks, was criticised by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson for speaking out against the preference deal with the Liberals.

Ms Dodd refused to hand out how-to-vote cards with One Nations directive, instead telling voters to put the Liberals last.

Senator Hanson said on Friday morning that she no longer wanted Ms Dodd in the party.

Ms Dodd is the fifth candidate to leave the party during the election campaign.

Pauline, you are supposed to be listening to the people. If you cant listen to your own candidates, what chance have the people got? she told the ABC last night.

Dont be so dishonest, dont pretend that you are about something and then go and do deals with the Liberals unless you are going to be upfront and tell your candidates before they join that you are just a Liberal puppet.

Pauline Hanson is facing a revolt in WA. Picture: Colin Murty The AustralianSource:News Corp Australia

It makes me feel as though I have been lied to.

Ms Dodd said if One Nation leader Senator Hanson wasnt being honest with her own party, how could voters trust her.

It makes me feel that the party I have joined is dishonest and their only answer to any criticism is, you are disendorsed, suck it up or leave and you are not working as team.

Its very hard to work as a team when you are working in a dictatorship.

In a response to the ABC, Senator Hanson said Ms Dodds could leave the party.

There is still time for Ms Dodd to resign as a One Nation candidate and run as an independent, she said.

I certainly wouldnt stand in the way of her leaving the party, in fact, Id welcome it.

One Nation?s Western Australian candidates are a colourful bunch, to say the least, and the surge of populist politics among Australian voters may see some of them elected. In a talk show-style run-down from Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, six of Pauline Hanson?s candidates were mocked for being some combination of racist, homophobic, conspiracy theorist, or religious zealotry. Despite the far-right party?s poll numbers taking a dive compared to federal trends, the party was projected to win three seats and possibly the balance of power. Credit: Sam Dastyari via Storyful

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The online platform Bring It to The Table facilitates candid conversations with a broad range of people on highly charged issues. In this video, participants discuss if equal opportunity exists. (Video: Talking Eyes Media)

Thewake-up call she needed came from her 17-year-old son.

It was the middle of the Obama administration, and Julie Winokur, a self-described liberal, was so frustrated withwhat she saw as Republican obstructionism that she would immediately dismiss any argument from the right. Then one day, her own child flipped her narrative. He told her she wasthe most politically intolerant person he knew.

If the other side had a good idea, you wouldnt know because youre not listening,she said he told her. I realized in that moment that I was as responsible as the people I was pointing fingers at. You have to take ownership of your own contribution to the negativity.

That was 2012, at the height of the tea party movement and in the midstof that years presidential election,when itfelt like the partisanship and rancor couldnt get worse. Her sons criticisminspired her to stop lamenting it andinstead try to fix it.

[He dramatically changed his views on gay marriage. Heres how he says the nation can come together.]

So Winokur, a documentary filmmaker in New Jersey, set out on a cross-country journey to meetpeople of different ideologies to discuss divisiveissues. Carting a square folding table and a navy tablecloth with patriotic stars, she endeavored to take her sons advice and really listen to others viewpoints. She wantedto get beyond talking points and regurgitated soundbites to discoverwhy people who see things so differently from her believe what they do.

She couldnt have known then how novel that concept would seem by the next presidential election.

She took her table to towns big and small, gathering a diverse cross section of Americans to interview. Sheeven set it up outside the Democratic and Republican national conventions that summer.

The online platform Bring It to The Table facilitates candid conversations with a broad range of people on highly charged issues. In this video, participants discuss their views on immigration. (Video: Talking Eyes Media)

I always saw this as the citizens antidote to politicians. Its taboo to ask people about their politics, but after being on the road and having many, many people who want to share, they are much more rationale and reasonable than we assume them to be, Winokur said.When you preface something as an opportunity to have a sober conversation where people can share what they believe, its amazing how many people are empowered to help other people with what theyve experienced.

In that spirit,during last years presidential election, she took her finished film project, Bring it to the Table, to college campuses around the country to spread her message about civil discourse. Since shed embarked onher own self-discovery to understand the other side, the national political dialogue had further deteriorated.

In her presentations, Winokur teaches students how to frame questions and engage political others without being confrontational. She tells them to never flatly tell a person their ideas are wrong. Instead, she advises theyask the personwhat experiences theyve had that shaped their opinions on a particular issue. If there wasnt a personal experience that led them to their opinion, she said a follow-up could be asking what they might have read or heard that led them to their conclusion.

Then shell take out her table and invite students to try it themselves. Sometimes she steps in to facilitate the dialogue, while other times she has the students engage with each other.

The goal isnt to change someones mind, but rather to get people thinking more deeply about where their beliefs come from and, in turn, give the questioner a more well-rounded perspective of opposing views.

We regurgitate things, we have a lazy way of analyzing information, we jump on the bandwagon of simplistic language, she said. The primary breakdown is the lack of shared information; theres a huge breakdown because were gettingtotally different information. When you dont share presumed facts, the conversation isnt even. Youre in different rooms pretending youre in the same room talking the same language when youre not.

She had hoped to take a break after the election, but almost immediately after Donald Trumps victory there was suddenly high demand for getting Democrats and Republicans talking to each other. And with the rise of hate crime incidents on college campuses, shes been called in by university administrators scrambling to bridge divides they hadnt previously acknowledged, she said.

She has personally learned through this process how to separate an individualfrom the candidate they voted for; to see them as American citizens rather than political adversaries. Healing the countrys deep political divide wont happen overnight, but she believes that having these conversations is the only way forward.

You cant solve a problem unless you bring it out in the open, she said. I thought it was so bad five years ago, and then it got worse. And were in a moment where it could get even worse. I think its a long game. This is an ugly moment that will get uglier, but you cant remedy something unless you air it, unless youre honest about it.

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Emmanuella Lambropoulos told reporters she was "really shocked" after winning the Liberal nomination. I didnt give up. Door to door. As soon as I knew I wanted this I worked really hard. ( Graham Hughes / THE CANADIAN PRESS )

By Giuseppe ValianteThe Canadian Press

Thu., March 9, 2017

MONTREALA 26-year-old high school teacher who was a virtual political unknown defeated a former provincial cabinet minister Wednesday to win the Liberal nomination for a federal byelection in a Montreal riding.

Emmanuella Lambropoulos and her team couldnt hold back their surprise at beating the woman considered to be the Liberal party favourite, Yolande James.

Im really shocked, Lambropoulos told reporters after her win in Saint-Laurent. I didnt give up. Door to door. As soon as I knew I wanted this I worked really hard.

The Liberals said 1,353 party members voted, with Lambropoulos capturing just more than 600 votes to defeat Marwah Rizqy.

The winners supporters credited the fact she lives in the Saint-Laurent borough and wasnt parachuted in by the Liberal party as the main reason she came away with the victory.

We came from the bottom up, said Petro Vouloukos, 22, who helped Lambropoulos secure her win. We were the grassroots. Not from the top up like Mrs. James.

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James, a former immigration minister in Jean Charests Quebec cabinet between 2007 and 2010, had recently left her position as a political commentator for Radio-Canada to seek the nomination.

Former foreign affairs minister Stephane Dion held the riding since 1996 and it has been Liberal for decades.

The riding is considered safe for the party and Lambropoulos is likely to become its MP after the April 3 byelection.

James, who was considered the heavy favourite, skipped out of a reception hall after learning she came in last out of three candidates.

Lambropoulos win is not without controversy as the man considered to be one of the strongest candidates, if not the strongest, was not allowed to run for the nomination.

Alan DeSousa, the well-known mayor of Saint-Laurent for the past 15 years, was not told why he was rejected as a candidate.

Many Liberal party members who voted Wednesday told The Canadian Press they were disappointed DeSousa wasnt on the ballot and said they would have voted for him.

Many people were upset, Vouloukos said about DeSousa not being allowed to run and the party seemingly favouring James. I think people being upset had an effect on the outcome but the most important thing is that she was able to mobilize the grassroots.

Lambropoulos was the only of the three candidates to live in the riding.

Her father, Athanasios, said her campaign started out with just him and her.

Our goal was to hit the road and get memberships, he said. We werent seen by the press; we were invisible.

Her mom, Matina, said Our headquarters was Grandmas living room.

The NDP has selected Mathieu Auclair to carry its banner in the Saint-Laurent riding, while the Tories have picked Jimmy Yu, who came in second place in the 2015 election behind Dion with 20 per cent of the vote.

The Bloc Qubcois has chosen Wiliam Fayad.

Four other byelections two in Ontario and two in Alberta will also be held the same day. Both Ontario seats are also considered safe for the Liberals, while the Conservatives are expected to retain the two ridings in Alberta.

The Liberals currently have 180 seats in the 338-seat Commons. The Conservatives hold 97, the NDP has 44, there are 10 Bloc Qubcois members, one Green party member and one Independent.

Dion quit politics recently and was later named ambassador to the European Union and Germany.

Note to readers: This is a corrected version. A previous story said the winning candidate captured 1,353 votes. That actually was the total number of ballots cast.

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A high-profile One Nation candidate who has spoken out against Pauline Hanson's preference deal with the WA Liberal Party has confirmed she will boycott the party's how-to-vote directive.

Margaret Dodd, who is running in the seat of Scarborough, told 7.30 that when she joined the party four weeks ago, she was assured that she would be able to decide her own preferences.

Now she has a message for Ms Hanson going into the final days of the campaign.

"Pauline, you are supposed to be listening to the people. If you can't listen to your own candidates, what chance have the people got?" she said.

Ms Dodd has unveiled her own banner for Saturday's election instructing voters to put the Liberals last.

Ms Dodd, whose daughter Hayley was murdered in 1999, is running to push for "no body, no parole" laws which Labor has supported.

Her daughter's body has never been found.

Ms Dodd said her own leader was not being straight with the voters or the candidates.

"Don't be so dishonest, don't pretend that you are about something and then go and do deals with the Liberals unless you are going to be upfront and tell your candidates before they join that you are just a Liberal puppet," she said.

"It makes me feel as though I have been lied to.

"[It] makes me feel that the party I have joined is dishonest and their only answer to any criticism is, you are disendorsed, suck it up or leave and you are not working as team.

"It's very hard to work as a team when you are working in a dictatorship."

Ms Dodd's stance adds to the growing dissent in the party over the preference deal with the Liberal Party.

The party's candidate for Kalamunda resigned over the deal last week and another candidate was disendorsed after speaking out publicly against it.

It is not just candidates who are angry.

The preference deal has forced market stallholder Vivian Davies to reconsider how she will vote in the Liberal-held seat of Wanneroo.

Inspired by Donald Trump's rise to power, Ms Davies was determined to vote for Ms Hanson when 7.30 caught up with her at the beginning of the West Australian election campaign.

"He [Trump] is following through with his promises," Ms Davies said.

"A lot of Australians are saying that we need that here and, yes, I do believe a lot of people will vote for Pauline.

"Her policies stand for what most Australians would like to see happen to the country rather than it be over-run by things that are politically correct all the time."

Traditionally a Labor voter, Ms Davies said she was turning to One Nation because of its policies on housing, immigration and helping "the ordinary Australian".

But, when 7.30 revisited her stall going into the final week of the campaign, the 62-year-old was having second thoughts and now does not know who she will vote for.

She said Senator Hanson had misread her supporters by striking a preference deal with the WA Liberals.

"I really believed that Pauline Hanson would have romped it in but there's a lot of people that don't want Barnett back and I can't understand why she's gone that way," Ms Davies said.

"I don't want Barnett to get back in. I was shocked, absolutely shocked."

Senator Hanson has been touring the state this week, trying to reassure her supporters that she is not running candidates in WA to "shore up support" for either the Labor or Liberal parties.

She has repeatedly stressed that voters themselves should take control of their preferences.

However, election analyst William Bowe believes the preference deal has received more attention than One Nation had predicted.

"Even people who are not exactly sure what a preference deal is, they've picked up loud and clear that One Nation has picked a side," he said.

"And once they have done that, they lose that fabulous advantage of being the anti-politics party, of being removed from the whole establishment, of being the kind of Donald Trump-style option that is just going to go in there and tear everything apart.

"If they have a disappointing performance here, I think the important thing is that they are going to think twice about entering a preference deal with the Liberal-National Party in Queensland."

One Nation's pitch to voters does not appeal to 19-year-old first-time Wanneroo voter Shannon Beckett-Smith.

"I think the One Nation party is just a very strong, opinionated group that are trying to force things onto other people," she said.

"Banning Muslims, taking off the burqa, that type of thing.

"We're in Australia, I get that but we've got to respect other peoples' cultures."

Ms Beckett-Smith said she would be voting for Labor because she had been unable to find full-time work and she believes the party has got the best plan for curbing unemployment.

Post the mining construction boom, the state has the highest jobless rate in the nation.

At a pre-polling booth for the seat of Wanneroo and other key northern suburbs electorates, Colin Barnett still appeared to have significant support after more than eight years in office.

Despite the state's record debt, Chris and Jeannie Clarke said they would be voting to give Mr Barnett a third term.

"He's run up a bit of a bill," Mr Clarke said.

"But we ran up a bill about 40 years ago when we bought a house and it is paid off now.

"Everybody forgets what the Barnett Government has done in the last couple of terms.

"He's built that magnificent stadium we've got.

"People have got to look at the big picture, not just what is happening today."

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